• “They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that’s real small pieces.”—Darrell Royal, Texas

• “They whipped us like a tiedup goat.”—Spike Dykes, TexasTech

• “I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: ‘Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good’.”—Walt Garrison, OklahomaState (later Dallas Cowboyfullback)

• “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.”—Bobby Bowden, Florida State

• “Football is not a contact sport. It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”—DuffyDaugherty, Michigan State

• After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: “All those who need showers, take them.”—John McKay,USC

• “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”—Murray Warmath,Minnesota

• “We played like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.”— Spike Dykes, Texas Tech

• “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”— Knute Rockne, Notre Dame

• “We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.”—DarrellRoyal, Texas

• “We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.”—John McKay, USC

• “Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.”—Darrell Royal,University of Texas

• “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”— Knute Rockne, Notre Dame

• “Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.”—John Heisman